"Celia didn't kill herself because of you, did she?" They raped her." Who?" Candice stared at me hard."I don't know one of them. She never saw his fac...e," I replied. "William Thorne and his two cronies."I didn't have to tell her who they were. Candice talked me down from doing a lot of pounding on the three high school idiots. She orchestrated the solution to Billy's hazing of Morgan.I described what I had seen when I touched Celia. As the last words were still staining the air, Candice walked. “As a maester, I highly recommend it. It would make it easier for me when chronicling this era. ‘Ser Bronn Blackwater’ sounds more aristocratic, and yet in step with the times, than your current formal designation. House Blackwater can pass Castamere down from father to son, said son can then be ‘Lord Blackwater,’ can point with pride to your legacy as a hero of Blackwater Bay, that kind of thing. Any thoughts of names? Gilly and I were thinking of a few for her next little brat. A fat little. She lifts me off the board onto the floor and back onto the board only this time on my back. Even if my hands are cuffed in front of me, there is sadly no way I can reach the knots in the rope and I am just as caught and helpless as before. Only this time my secret place is pointing straight up into the bright light and that bothers me a lot. I am fully exposed and if there is one camera there must be more. She doesn't seem to care, and she goes away again. Looking for what?She comes back with. " It sounds like you have a plan." I do. I wanted to see what it would take to get a private investigator to look into them, and put together as much info as possible. My first thought was to use that information to go to the authorities, although they don't have the best track record with these guys." Yeah, I remember Waco." Exactly. My other thought was to use any incriminating info we can come up with as a threat to pull Judy out. Guys who run these things tend to be a pretty good at.
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